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T-Bills yield decline 100bps

KARACHI: Cut-off Yield of short-term government securities continued to decline and reached 2022 levels on ...

Published 12 Dec, 2024 06:01am

Business & Finance

SME sector: SBP revises per party exposure limits

KARACHI: Aimed at facilitating the SME sector, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has revised the per party exposure...

Published 09 Oct, 2024 06:26am

Markets

Domestic borrowing: govt to borrow on its own terms, says Aurangzeb

Finance minister urges banking system to focus on lending to private sector

Updated 20 Sep, 2024 10:46pm

Business & Finance

Govt raises Rs835bn in T-bill auction

KARACHI: In the T-bill auction on Wednesday, participation of Rs 1,618 billion was seen with government raising Rs...

Published 05 Sep, 2024 07:07am

Business & Finance

Auction for T-bills: Rs397bn raised against Rs150bn target

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) conducted the auction for T-bills on Wednesday and raised Rs 397 billion...

Published 22 Aug, 2024 06:58am

BR Research

Rate cut hopes drive treasury yield decline

The Treasury bills yields are falling in anticipation of rate cuts. In the auction earlier this week, the cut-off...

Published 09 Aug, 2024 09:02am

Perspectives

Exploring broader implications of Pakistan’s local currency debt restructuring

Recently, a lot of discussion has been on why local currency debt restructuring is viable and possible. However, in...

Published 11 Sep, 2023 08:19pm

Editorials

Plan to borrow Rs11.09trn in 3 months

EDITORIAL: According to the auction calendar issued by the State Bank of Pakistan, the federal government intends to...

Published 11 Aug, 2023 05:17am

Perspectives

Mapping the 2008 and 2023 economic crises in Pakistan: some similarities, several differences

An increase in prices of commodities in the international market brings significant challenges for Pakistan and its...

Published 05 May, 2023 06:23pm

Markets

Treasury bills squeezed as debt ceiling deadline looms

SINGAPORE: Short-dated Treasury bills were under pressure on Tuesday and the cost of insuring against a US default...

Published 02 May, 2023 10:31am

Sukuks, investments in INPCs: Govt decides to re-pledge approved assets

Federal government is authorized to borrow under Article 166 of Constitution, says Finance Division

Updated 02 Mar, 2023 09:23am

Business & Finance

Treasury bill cut-offs jump as banking system liquidity tightens

MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India sold 3-month treasury bills at 5.62% on Wednesday, sharply above the 5.40% cut-off...

Published 27 Jul, 2022 05:09pm

Editorials

Economy appears to be at a tipping point

EDITORIAL: There is no stopping the increase in the market interest rates. 6M Kibor is at 14.25 percent — which is...

Published 29 Apr, 2022 05:43am

BR Research

Allied Bank: Steady growth

Allied Bank Limited (ABL) announced Rs2/share as second interim dividend, taking the year-to-date dividend to...

Published 24 Aug, 2021 07:35am

Markets

US Treasury keeps auction sizes steady, bill decline to slow

The Treasury also said it expects Congress to raise or suspend the US debt limit in a timely manner, and that it may take certain extraordinary measures if Congress does not.
The government expects its cash balance to be around $450 billion at the expiration of the debt limit suspension on July 31.

Updated 05 May, 2021 06:15pm

SBP initiates selections in all categories of PDs

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has initiated the procedure for selection of Primary Dealers, Preliminary...

Updated 29 Apr, 2021 10:09am

BR Research

Allied Bank: Smooth sailing

Allied Bank Limited (ABL) declared Rs2/share as interim dividend to go along the first quarterly financial results...

Published 28 Apr, 2021 07:40am

BR Research

UBL – banking on investments

2021 has started on a smooth note for banks. UBL was the latest to rake up good profit numbers for 1QCY21 –...

Published 27 Apr, 2021 07:30am

Markets

Greece to auction six-month T-bills on April 28

The debt agency last sold six-month T-bills in March with the paper priced to yield -0.24%. The settlement date of the new T-bills will be May 4.

Published 23 Apr, 2021 06:16pm

Markets

Nigerian stocks drop to 10-week low, banks fall

The all-share index, which rose 50% in 2020, shed 1.8% on Tuesday, the most in one day since December. The index of Nigeria's top 10 banking shares shed 5.3%.
Stocks had been rising since October as local funds moved into equities following two rate cuts last year, and as excess naira flooded money markets due to historically low yields on the debt market.

Updated 09 Mar, 2021 09:34pm

World

UK's Sunak could extend stamp duty holiday until June-end

Sunak will use his annual budget on March 3 to move the policy to the end of June, bringing it in line with the easing of lockdown restrictions, the newspaper said.

Published 24 Feb, 2021 12:13pm

Business & Finance

Greece to auction 625mn euros of 6-month T-bills on Feb 24

The agency last sold six-month T-bills in late January, when the paper was priced to yield -0.28%.
The settlement date of the new T-bills will be Feb. 26. Only primary dealers will be allowed to participate and no commission will be paid.

Published 19 Feb, 2021 07:29pm

Markets

Croatia beats target at T-bill auction, yield inches down

The yield at the first auction in almost two months inched down one basis point to 0.05%. The original target at the auction was set at 1.2 billion kuna.
Non-banking investors bought almost 90% of the bills.

Published 19 Jan, 2021 05:56pm

Markets

Greece to auction 625mn euros of one-year T-bills on Dec 9

Primary dealers can submit non-competitive bids for up to an additional 30pc of the auctioned amount until Dec. 10, PDMA said.

Published 04 Dec, 2020 05:05pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 20	278.48
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 20	278.28
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 20	156.31
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 20	0.89
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 20	1.26
Euro to USD / Dec 20	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Dec 20	5,930.85
India Sensex / Dec 20	78,041.59
Tokyo Nikkei / Dec 20	38,701.90
Nasdaq / Dec 20	19,572.60
Hang Seng / Dec 20	19,720.70
FTSE 100 / Dec 20	8,084.36
Dow Jones / Dec 20	42,840.26
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 20	19,884.75

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 20	69.46
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 20	234,311
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 20	2,622.91
Cotton US¢/pound / Dec 20	68.06
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 21	17,585
Petrol/Litre / Dec 22	252.10

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Media Times Ltd / Dec 20 Media Times Limited(MDTL)	2.37 ▲ 0.37 (18.50%)
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Dec 20 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	7.23 ▲ 1.00 (16.05%)
Ist.Capital Sec / Dec 20 First Capital Securities Corporation(FCSC)	2.12 ▲ 0.26 (13.98%)
Khalid Siraj / Dec 20 Khalid Siraj Textile Mills Limited(KSTM)	9.60 ▲ 0.97 (11.24%)
Aruj Industries / Dec 20 Aruj Industries Limited(ARUJ)	9.90 ▲ 0.98 (10.99%)
Escorts Bank / Dec 20 Escorts Investment Bank Limited(ESBL)	4.79 ▲ 0.47 (10.88%)
Cresent Jute / Dec 20 Crescent Jute Products Limited(CJPL)	4.20 ▲ 0.40 (10.53%)
S.G.Power / Dec 20 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	11.19 ▲ 1.02 (10.03%)
P.T.C.L. / Dec 20 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	25.80 ▲ 2.35 (10.02%)

Stock	Price
LSE Financial Serv. / Dec 20 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	16.25 ▼ -1.81 (-10.02%)
Dar-es-Salaam / Dec 20 Dar-es-Salaam Textile Mills Limited(DSML)	41.93 ▼ -4.66 (-10.00%)
Maqbool Tex. / Dec 20 Maqbool Textile Mills Limited(MQTM)	31.05 ▼ -3.45 (-10.00%)
Reliance Cotton / Dec 20 Reliance Cotton Spinning Mills Limited(RCML)	621 ▼ -69.00 (-10.00%)
Sanghar Sugar / Dec 20 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	27.72 ▼ -3.08 (-10.00%)
Olympia Mills / Dec 20 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	34.58 ▼ -3.84 (-9.99%)
Nagina Cot. / Dec 20 Nagina Cotton Mills Limited(NAGC)	48.92 ▼ -5.41 (-9.96%)
Oilboy Energy / Dec 20 Oilboy Energy Limited(OBOY)	11.39 ▼ -1.26 (-9.96%)
Arpak Int. / Dec 20 Arpak International Investments Ltd.(ARPAK)	65.22 ▼ -7.19 (-9.93%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 20 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	177,645,248 ▲ 0.10
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 20 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	81,901,542 ▲ 0.16
Cnergyico PK / Dec 20 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	68,345,098 ▲ 0.12
Pak Elektron / Dec 20 Pak Elektron Limited(PAEL)	57,974,101 ▲ 1.47
Pak Refinery / Dec 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	45,251,944 ▲ 0.40
Pace (Pak) Ltd. / Dec 20 Pace (Pakistan) Limited(PACE)	43,240,462 ▲ 1.00
Sui South Gas / Dec 20 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	40,539,001 ▼ -0.74
B.O.Punjab / Dec 20 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	35,598,669 ▲ 0.24
Symmetry Group / Dec 20 Symmetry Group Limited(SYM)	34,869,613 ▼ -0.72

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